help for article about nurses' uniforms

[nursewriter2]

I am writing an article about nurses' uniforms and how they vary country to country. Maybe there isn't a difference? I would appreciate any input, advice or resources I can check out to make comparisons. Also, within the States, how is it decided what nurses will wear to work? Is it dictated by employers? By specialty? Do nurses choose for themselves? Thank you for any input

[florry]

Hello deespoohbear!

Thank God that there still are nurses out there who have some attention to their working habits and shoes!!

Its about dignity (the patients and their relatives, name them also customers...), not only cleanliness, its about proudness to our profession.

You have never seen a cabin attendent with dirty shoes and a bad-looking and -smelling uniform? (Maybe you have seen it, but they would not ceep their jobs very longer)

[whipping girl in 07, RN]

Where I work, the CNAs wear dk. green and housekeeping wears a certain floral pattern top with olive green or navy blue pants. Speech, PT and OT wear that carribean blue that Landau makes. RT and xray wear whatever they want. My unit is supposed to wear navy blue uniforms/scrubs, but we wear just about anything. It is really up to the nurse manager of each unit to decide what colors the nurses wear. One of the other units is teal and white and that's it! Cath lab and surgery wear the standard issue hospital scrubs, and PRN team is supposed to wear white, but most don't. Our nametag is considered part of our uniform as well, and I always wear mine where it can be seen that I am a RN. I also introduce myself to the patient as their nurse. Some of my scrub jackets have my name and RN on them as well, and I wear my nursing school pin too.

I wear navy blue clogs and I love them! Very easy to keep clean and don't get all scuffed like white shoes do. Also very comfortable.

[nursingdog]

at the VA hospital I work in, they allow us to were any color, print scrub that we want, however being a male nurse this is a harder endever. I can't find any male prints that I like, sure there as some out there, but Cartoons arn't what I would wear to work with my hospice patients.... I would like to find some that fit my personal likes.... Cars, American Flags, Military items for my veteran patients.

[flashpoint]

We can wear anything as long as it's scrubs. Personally, I like solids and I'm in sort of a blue mood right now, so I either wear the ceil blue scrubs or navy blue scrubs. Some of it depends on which doc is in the ER...one has all navy, one has all ceil...I like to coordinate with them...LOL. I also have a set of khaki scrubs and a set of purple...I don't wear either of those much. Most of the nurses wear solid pants and print tops. One very beautiful slender nurse has print pants too...most of us wouldn't look good in print pants. :)

X-ray wears any scrubs they like...lab wears black pants and khaki polos with a long white on white pinstriped jacket...housekeeping wears jeans and a scrub top with moons and stars.

[Kiwi Rochelle]

Hi there,

I work as an RN in New Zealand and at the hospital where I work we wear navy trousers or dress shorts with a white tunic with collar and whatever shoes or sandals we like. The smock-style dress is still very popular in NZ also - always in white with the health board logo, and different colour epilettes indicate what level of nurse you are eg Charge Nurse, Staff Nurse, Enrolled Nurse etc. Scrubs are mostly worn in theatres and specialty floors like CCU and everyone on that ward wears the same colour. Here, the uniform we wear is decided by management and varies between District Health Boards. Hope this is useful! :)

[Sarah, RNBScN]

Post this to the others from UK, NZ and other places. Some have nursed in Saudi as well, they would provide a different comparison I am sure.

Check OVID site for literature on your topic or MEDLINE.

Good luck